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Rather tepid German war actionner
searchanddestroy-17 December 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Well, it's not Bernard Wicki's DIE BRÜCKE we have to talk about. The director( Harald Philip) was "guilty" of some German thrillers - Jerry Cotton - and Winnetou( Karl May) westerns. I don't now if he adapted some Edgard Wallace novels...Maybe, as did Harald Reinl and Alfred Vöhrer. All these features hardly crossed the Rhine. Some, but not all. Back to this war film, I won't say it's boring, but I waited for a little more. Anway, it's not better than the British or American ones of the same decade. A group of elite German troops have jeopardize Russian army's plans. It was hard for me to follow this movie because I saw it with no subs and German spoken. So...

But I watched it closely enough to admit it's was not a masterpiece, as was, I repeat, DIE BRÜCKE, shot one year earlier.

The climax, that takes place on a bridge to be blasted, is the only sequence very to be remembered from this flick.

But it is a rare gem however. Try it.
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War crime - war = crime (not Entertainment)
aignereveline20 November 2022
Well, to tell the truth, ist's a bit irritating, that it IS shown so clear: war crime. It is a bit like getting near a secret, not an Entertainment Produkt. It seems, no one thought about putting IT in 'poison cupboars' or it already was there and after the years there ist no crime seen in IT anymore. But there ist the question: is the movie glorifying violence? And does it involve consenting to torture? When there is cept the mother in custody, while the son is acting? Even the line 'Ich bin Nationalsozialist!' lets me think we are entertained by death. But it is ong ago. Nothing could happen anymore. Shouldn't we bei careful? Could WE rate IT.
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